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"Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men."
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"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
"Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart."
"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."
"Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, even if only once:to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."
"Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men."
"Those who are made can be unmade."
"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
"Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time."
"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible. If a grain of corn is not impermanent, it can never be transformed into a stalk of corn. If the stalk were not impermanent, it could never provide us with the ear of corn we eat."
"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."
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